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Women may want greater taxes and redistributional spending than men if male incomes exceed female incomes and men and women are not always married. Cross-section evidence from opinion polls provides indirect support for this view. Women express greater favorability toward redistributional...
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This paper examines the Gini-based method of decomposing the redistributive effect of taxation into vertical …
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This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
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This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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reduction. This review particularly recommends shifting away from income taxation to indirect taxation, for instance by raising … reform to vehicle-related taxation. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Australia (www … pour la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et appuie la réforme de la taxation des véhicules. Ce Document de …
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-tax elasticity of various tax bases that could fall under the taxation of the financial sector. The study will be focused on bringing …
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introduction of the respective Chapters. The Study covers 4 different Chapters, namely: Corporate Taxation of the Financial Sector … – Banks, Value-Added Taxation of the Financial Sector, Labour Taxation in the Financial Sector, Taxation of Financial …
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economic challenges that EU Member States are facing in the field of taxation and tax policy in times of slow growth and high … indirect taxation, with a particular focus on corporate tax expenditure, (iii) the need to improve tax governance and (iv …) specific tax issues, namely housing taxation, environmental taxation and some redistributive aspects of taxation. …
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This paper is concerned with the problem of combining a non-linear income tax with an indirect externality correcting tax. The analysis is performed in a model economy with two types of individuals and two types of consumption goods. The government wants to redistribute from the more able...
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The Polish tax system is characterised by high social security contributions for both employers and employees. As a result, Poland has one of the highest tax wedges in the OECD, despite relatively low personal income tax rates. This, combined with a relatively high minimum wage and generous...
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